CRYPTANALYSIS ON SECURE FRACTALrnIMAGE CODING BASED ON FRACTALrnPARAMETER ENCRYPTION

摘要

The vulnerabilities of the selective encryption scheme for fractal image coding proposed by Lian et al.1 are identified. By comparing multiple cipher-images of the same plain-image encrypted with different keys, the positions of unencrypted parameters in each encoded block are located. This allows the adversary to recover the encrypted depth of the quadtree by observing the length of each matched domain block. With this depth information and the unencrypted parameters, the adversary is able to reconstruct an intelligent image. Experimental results show that some standard test images can be successfully decoded and recognized by replacing the encrypted contrast scaling factor and brightness offset with specific values. Some remedial approaches are suggested to enhance the security of the scheme.